Novels •
The Pretender (2008) •
Bone And Cane (2011) • ''
What You Don't Know'' (2012) •
Student (2012) •
The Great Deception (2015) •
Death in the Family (2022)
Young Adult novels •
The Foggiest (1990) •
Shoot The Teacher (1993) •
Avenging Angel (1993) •
Final Cut (1994) •
Break Point (1995) •
Deadly Inheritance (1996) •
Dark Journey (1997) •
Love Lessons (1998) •
Dying For You (1999) •
Dead Guilty (2000) •
Festival (2001) •
The Last Virgin (2002) •
Denial (2004)
'The Beat' series •
Missing Person (1995) •
Black and Blue (1995) •
Smokescreen (1996) •
Asking for It (1996) •
Dead White Male (1996) •
Losers (1997) •
Sudden Death (1997) •
Night Shift (1998) •
Victims (1998) •
Suspects (1999) •
Fallen Angel (2000)
Reluctant Reader novels •
Nicked (1999) •
Runaway Train (2000) •
Harpies (2001) •
Witness (2001) •
Gambler (2002) •
Coma (2004) •
Stray (2006) •
Shouting at the Stars (2005, abridged version 2008) •
China Girl (2009) •
Secret Gardens (2011)
Other books •
The Right Moment (1999, historical children's novel) •
Haunting Time (1999, short stories) •
Boy King (2002, historical children's novel) •
The eBay Book (2004, revised edition 2005) •
Provenance: New and Collected Stories (2016, short stories) • ''Don't Mention the Night: a memoir'' (2023)
Books edited •
City of Crime (1997, short stories by writers connected with Nottingham) •
Middleton at Eighty (1999, with John Lucas, Festschrift for Booker Prize–winning Nottingham author) • ''Harris's Requiem'' by Stanley Middleton (2006, new edition of Middleton's second novel, with introduction) • ''25: Celebrating 25 Years of NTU's MA in Creative Writing'' (2019, with Rory Waterman, poetry & prose anthology) ==References==